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Topic: Do you play "dress up as an Englishman" in the USA? (Read 11666 times)

Whilst working at a campground in the UK last year, I encountered my first "Country & Western Week".

What an eye opener that was !!!!

A couple of times each year, 3 large campgrounds are overwhelmed by "cowboys and indians" - the main event being in September.

I was driving people around the one campground in a minibus - and it was strange having adult males climb into the bus dressed as red indians, with painted faces and dressed just like out of a cowboy movie - whilst wearing a full sized buffalo head and skin !!

So - the question has to be - is there anywhere in the USA that you all meet up and dress like the English in bowler hats and 3-piece pinstripe suits, whilst carrying your brolly and a copy of The Times .

People dressed like cowboys is something you see everyday in Texas. It's part of many people's wardrobes whether they are actually cowboys or not. The only Englishman's attire I've seen copied is Sid Vicious.

So - the question has to be - is there anywhere in the USA that you all meet up and dress like the English in bowler hats and 3-piece pinstripe suits, whilst carrying your brolly and a copy of The Times

A few weeks ago I would have agreed, but I've recently seen on TV several men with bowlers and one in person. These were ordinary folks, not in costume. Guess bowlers may be making a comeback, just like other hats.

I snapped a shot of this real cowboy at QZ. He's a member of the Framily.

Believe me, folks ... you're not ever gonna meet a more *real* cowboy than George Akers. When our Lab, Dusty, gouged a big hunk of skin out of her side he reached into the tack compartment of his horse trailer, smeared some pink goo on her wound, and she was good as new in two days! Bein' a cowboy is more than a vocation or avocation to George ... it's a religion in the best sense of that word. And, can he tell stories around a campfire!